Init panics

Init panics

[Tommy McCabe]

In line 332 of elkscmd/sys_utils/init.c, there is a
PANIC that shouldn't be there- it's activated
regardless of the preceding if statement. But when I
take it out, init doesn't print out anything. I have
literally filled every other line of main() with fputs
and PANICS and init doesn't print out anything.


	
		
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Re: Init panics

[Eduardo Pereira Habkost]

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On Tue, Jul 20, 2004 at 04:34:00PM -0700, Tommy McCabe wrote:
> In line 332 of elkscmd/sys_utils/init.c, there is a
> PANIC that shouldn't be there- it's activated
> regardless of the preceding if statement. But when I
> take it out, init doesn't print out anything. I have
> literally filled every other line of main() with fputs
> and PANICS and init doesn't print out anything.

Have you ever used execv() on unix? If you see some examples of use
of execv(), you will see why the panic is there. Simply because init
should really show a error message (I would print a error string, instead
of just calling PANIC0, however), if it can't run getty, if the execv()
call is successful, the PANIC0 line will not be executed, because the
process is replaced by getty. Is getty included on your disk?

-- 
Eduardo

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Re: Init panics

[Tommy McCabe]

--- Eduardo Pereira Habkost
<ehabkost@conectiva.com.br> wrote:
> On Tue, Jul 20, 2004 at 04:34:00PM -0700, Tommy
> McCabe wrote:
> > In line 332 of elkscmd/sys_utils/init.c, there is
> a
> > PANIC that shouldn't be there- it's activated
> > regardless of the preceding if statement. But when
> I
> > take it out, init doesn't print out anything. I
> have
> > literally filled every other line of main() with
> fputs
> > and PANICS and init doesn't print out anything.
> 
> Have you ever used execv() on unix? If you see some
> examples of use
> of execv(), you will see why the panic is there.
> Simply because init
> should really show a error message (I would print a
> error string, instead
> of just calling PANIC0, however), if it can't run
> getty, if the execv()
> call is successful, the PANIC0 line will not be
> executed, because the
> process is replaced by getty. Is getty included on
> your disk?
> 
> -- 
> Eduardo
> 

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